VERNON, NY – Full house. An unseasonably warm April Friday brought a massive turnout of 84 race cars to Utica-Rome Speedway for the 2023 Open Practice. The ‘Home of Heroes’ hosted three hours of track time for a variety of divisions in advance of the Season Opener on Friday, April 21. Both the outer half-mile oval and inner loop were

Written by Chris Moore VERONA, NY – Fonda and Utica-Rome speedways officially put the lid on the 2022 season with the season ending Awards Banquet. The event took place at the luxurious Turning Stone Casino & Resort in Verona, N.Y. More than $114,000 in point fund money was distributed by BD Motorsports Media LLC. Competitors at both speedways who finished in

By: Ron Szczerba   Fonda, NY – On Friday February 24, BD Motorsports Media LLC will celebrate the 2022 racing season as they honor the 2022 Fonda Speedway-Utica Rome Speedway Track Champions at the annual awards banquet. The Fonda Speedway-Utica Rome Speedway “Night of Champions” festivities will be held for the first time ever at the Turning Stone Resort Casino

MILLSBORO, DE – Locked in. All four BD Motorsports Media LLC facilities – Fonda and Utica-Rome speedways in New York, Delaware International and Georgetown speedways in Delaware – will operate under NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series sanctioning for 2023. BD Motorsports Media LLC owner Brett Deyo “made it official” with NASCAR’s Brett Tisdale, Senior Manager Weekly Racing Operations, during a NASCAR Home

VERNON, NY – A trio of historic dirt tracks in the Northeast will join the NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series for the upcoming 2023 season. Delaware’s Georgetown Speedway and New York’s Utica-Rome and Fonda Speedways, which are operated by promoter Brett Deyo, are the latest facilities to become NASCAR sanctioned. “I’ve been looking at the option (to sanction with

Written by Andrew Reigel VERNON, NY – Heroes, be ready.    The third season for BD Motorsports Media LLC at Utica-Rome Speedway is taking shape. Weekly racing is set for Friday nights under the leadership of promoter Brett Deyo and general managers Jamie and Denise Page. The 2023 ‘Home of Heroes’ schedule of events is in place with 21 races

Written by Andrew Reigel VERNON, NY – They’re back. For the second consecutive season, the Tezos All Star Circuit of Champions (ASCoC) presented by Mobil 1 will return to Utica-Rome Speedway on Saturday, Aug. 19, 2023. The lightning-fast ASCoC 410 Sprint Cars will offer a $10,000 winner’s share again this year. Last August, the return of the All Stars brought

Written by Chris Moore VERNON, NY – Matt Sheppard claimed the season finale at Utica-Rome Speedway on Tuesday night, topping a stout 26-car field in the ‘Modern Day Outlaw 50’ worth $5,000. The Savannah, N.Y., resident raced from his ninth starting position to take the lead at the completion of lap 26 and drove away with a dominant performance for

Modern Day Outlaw Sunoco Modified Feature Finish (50 laps): MATT SHEPPARD, Larry Wight, Demetrios Drellos, Rocky Warner, Bobby Hackel IV, Alex Yankowski, David Schilling, Alan Johnson, Will Shields, Willy Decker, Brian Gleason, Pat Ward, Danny Bouc, Jeff Trombley, Neil Stratton, Jeff Taylor, Cale Ross, Rusty Smith, Billy Decker, Alan Barker, JaMike Sowle, Brian Murphy, Andy Bachetti, Ronnie Johnson, Ryan Darcy,

VERNON, NY – Since the most recent event at Utica-Rome Speedway on Labor Day weekend, three prominent members of the historic facility’s racing community were lost. Dave Lape of Canajoharie, N.Y., a multi-time winner on both the dirt and pavement surfaces and a two-time Modified track champion at the Home of Heroes, passed away on Sept. 7. Three days later